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Seraph

@seraphism.bsky.social

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Queer Christian (Agnostic)🏳️‍🌈✝️ Father👴 Gaymer🎮 Geek🐲 Aspiring Trans ally🏳️‍⚧️ Lefty⬅️ Occasional Writer and Poet✒️ #poetry #microfiction Singer🎤 Hyperromantic🌹 Demisexual-ish🍆 He/him♂️ Occasionally NSFW (but always tagged or labelled)🔞 📍Somerset, UK.

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · Nov 8

Thought it's about time I made a post to pin, so:

Hi, I'm Seraph (real name Chris) and I post gay stuff, a lot of oversharing about my mental health, poetry and whatever seems amusing to me at the time. Follow me for writing, compassion, humour and raw honesty.

See the replies for my content.

A man with glasses, mid length brown hair and a greying beard.

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 4h

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 5h

I have a week off and plan to spend as much of it as possible in somebody else's bed in South Wales.

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 5h

Ah, then I might just keep it permanently two weeks from now.

Well assuming that future goes as planned, anyway.

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 5h

I honestly need tomorrow to be the week before last.

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 6h

I have survived my chores this evening and managed to do my little bit of college work. Now to chill and wind down for bed.

Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 6h

Tomorrow will today enough when it's time, you're right.

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 14h

List of Labour MPs who are openly transphobic nowadays and who to vote for to unseat them.

1) Tonia Antoniazzi

Transphobic for years. Open GC. Behind the "Women's Dec" for Labour

Constituency: Gower
Maj: 11567

Suggested vote: Plaid Cymru

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 8h

Techbros do sell us a lot of wank, don't they?

Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 9h

Which is also [spoiler alert]:

basically the plot of a Pat Barker novel - Toby's Room.

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 10h

Yup. You've probably seen it before, as I've posted it a few times, I think.

Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · Oct 27

Anyway, here are some of my feelings about remembrance summed up in #poetry.

The Unknown Slur.

What would they have said,
D’you think,
If they’d known that he was gay?

If they’d known that in those
Bittersweet moments of
Life before
Death,
Before the cold machine of war
Chewed him up and
Spat him out -
No more apt cliche
For the spread of bullets and
The blast of a shell -
He'd been thinking of
His lover:
Some other unknown soldier
With tears on his cheeks and
Gas in his lungs?

When they paraded him with all the
Pomp and circumstantial evidence of
His bravery
For all the sonless mothers
And the sunless others who live on in
Grief but bear it proudly
For those English acres of
Mud and blood and rot,
How quickly would that pride
Have turned to shame
If they'd known that he was gay?

If they'd known that
Every step he took
Across that hellshat quagmire
Was a step towards redemption
And the saving of a face
He’ll lose to let the dirt wear
(Whatever happened to grace?)
When death makes of him
A different kind of invert?

When the papers’ prose turned purple
And all the lapels red
And the poetic lies are spoken
And the quotes are all misread,
All the proper mourners stirred with hymns
What would they all have said,
If they'd known that he was foreign,
Or ‘coloured’, black, a Jew?
If they'd known that he read Marx,
Or Russell, whatever would they do
If he was sensitive, a poet,
And still now, what will they say
If I write an angry poem
And declare that he was gay?

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 11h

(In Memoriam was also the inspiration for one of my favourite poems that I've written)

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 11h

It's fantastic. For a YA take on the same topic, @whusseyauthor.bsky.social's 'The Boy I Love' is also brilliant.

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 14h

I didn't realise it had opened yet.

Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 15h

🫂💜 for you both.

Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 16h

One would presume a teacher might say of such a thing, "well it's not perfect but some of it is still l useful", only I can't see anything on here that's useful at all. What was going through that teacher's mind!?

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 16h

🫂💜

Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 16h

Poor baby (that goes for you too!) I hope your day is swift and painless like a good execution. 😅

Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 16h

How could you do this to him!? 😭

(Reposted thanks to my easily distracted, typo-prone brain).

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 17h

No might about it from this angle. Would*! 😅

*But not delete!

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 18h

Sanskrit manuscripts have these abbreviations in the margin referring to texts - anyone aware if there is a complete list of the standard abbreviations?

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 17h

I go by he/him. I'd decided that my masculinity is whatever I want it to be before I came out and that has only felt more so since. It's a core part of my identity as a queer man. I'll answer to anything though even if she/her might still result in an unconscious flinch.
#InternationalPronounsDay

Peter Creature Feature 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @petephilip.bsky.social · 18h

Oooh. Cool. So I go by He/Him, purely for the sake of ease. They/Them is probably closer to my sense of self, but even that isn't quite a match.

I'll know it when I hear it. Maybe it's more of a feeling than a word. 🤷
#InternationalPronounsDay

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 19h

I am They/Them, but don't mind He/They too much, and fully understand why people would automatically default to He/Him so don't get annoyed when it is a genuine mistake, I do when they continue if, and I rarely do offline, I have corrected them.
#InternationalPronounsDay

Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 18h

This looks like the cover of a 90s techno single. Make of that what you will.

Apart from that, I feel ya. 😮‍💨

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks. I'm fine, just... tired and in need of a holiday, I think.

Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 18h

Feeling like a disaster this morning. Oh well. Work won't wait.

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Seraph @seraphism.bsky.social · 19h

Indeed, all the tracks on Medusa were.